Author: Kiran Varanasi

INDIAN MISS REPRESENTATION

Kiran Varanasi - June 1, 2016 - 0 Comments

Bengaluru Nagarathnamma. Pic Courtesy: The Hindu It was when I was watching an American documentary called “Miss Representation” that I noticed a peculiar aspect about India. The documentary was criticizing the representation of women in popular media, and how this entrenches sexist attitudes in society. For example, it recounted...

Lingua Inter Mingua – A peep into my linguistic adventures

Kiran Varanasi - February 11, 2016 - 0 Comments

I made an amusing discovery about myself while talking to my girlfriend’s family over the Christmas dinner table – that I had an attention span of about one minute to follow the topic of discussion. Like a ripple on the surface of water, this one-minute long window followed me through...